Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Environment in History: International Perspectives, 8)

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.

Business & Money

Dorondel, Stefan

Economics

Berghahn Books

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 3)

Politics & Social Sciences

Stahl, Johannes

Sikor, Thomas

To, Phuc Xuan

Anthropology

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation's forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.

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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Environment in History: International Perspectives, 8)

When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 3)

When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 3)

Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Environment in History: International Perspectives, 8)